[ale] Buwahahah! This is great

[Jay Lozier]

I have been following this case. The trial judge actually taught
himself JAVA so he could understand the issues better. The Appeals
Court ignored his opinion and his commentary - you can never infringe
on an API. Now the Nine Seniles have it and I am nervous that none of
them understand the difference between a programming interface and the
implementation or worse even care to understand the diffference.

On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 23:44 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> This reminds me a little of the lawsuit where Lotus successfully sued
> Borland for copying the "look and feel" of Lotus 123. I find both 
> cases
> disturbing.
> 
> SteveT
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> On Fri, 29 May 2015 09:32:19 -0400
> Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeh, it's tres crazy.  The first judge (the esteemed William Alsup)
> > actually learned to program in Java (
> > http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/05/judge-alsup-codes.html ) so he 
> > could
> > understand the issues, then wound up ruling that APIs were NOT
> > copyrightable.  Alas, the court on appeal was not so thorough.
> > 
> > -- CHS
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:32 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > For fucks sake. I haven't even the words.
> > > 
> > > If I could get sued for wiring code that does nothing more than
> > > links to another library, I don't see any reasonable not rational
> > > choice but to find something else to do!
> > > 
> > > How can they not see that it is exactly the same as the interface 
> > > of
> > > keyboard to user, or steering wheel to driver? The steering wheel
> > > is an universally accepted "operational interface" to a vehicle. 
> > > If
> > > an API can be copyrighted, which is nothing more than a 
> > > descriptor
> > > of what's behind it, then it should be perfectly fair to abuse
> > > copyright as patent on the steering wheel.
> > > 
> > > What a mindfuck.
> > > 
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > > 
> > > On May 28, 2015, at 11:02 AM, Charles Shapiro
> > > <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > You probably don't want to read it if you're already mad about
> > > something else..
> > > 
> > > 
> > > https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama
> > > -administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning
> > > -software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml
> > > 
> > > -- CHS
> > > 
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